A Plymouth police officer involved in a motorcycle crash died from his injuries Tuesday afternoon, Lt. Victor Higgins of the Plymouth Police Department confirmed.

The officer was identified as Greg Maloney by Plymouth police and in Twitter posts expressing condolences from police departments around Massachusetts.

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The crash happened on Samoset Street near the entrance to Plymouth Mobile Estates.

A medical helicopter was called to take Maloney to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he died.

Sources told Wicked Local Plymouth Maloney was traveling with another motorcycle officer when he crashed.

The motorcycle landed nearly a quarter of a mile west of the intersection, between Seneca Lane and the entrance to the Village at Plymouth.

A resident of the village of Plymouth said he heard one horrific crash - followed by a second crash moments later. He walked out to the street and saw the motorcycle on the sidewalk just past the entrance to the development.

Plymouth selectmen opened their meeting Tuesday night by asking people to keep the officer in their thoughts and prayers.